Fragrance News Archives

 Nine d'Urso is the eldest daughter of ex top model Inès de la Fressange, who recently went back to the Chanel runway for a short stint. The 17-year old adolescent has recently been showcased in the book of advice her...

Cacharel will offer a second limited-edition collection of petite-sized house's perfumes this spring from April 2011 called Le Jardin de Cacharel (The Garden of Cacharel.) It follows Les Jellies de Cacharel in 2010. This time, LouLou and Eden are included...

 Koto Parfums are launching a new flacon for Hello Kitty Eau de Toilette (see our review) called the Pop-a-Licious edition to correspond to the Valentine mood this season. The children's perfume, good enough for their mothers too, is now housed...

Lady Gaga has reportedly requested that two avowedly provocative olfactory notes be added to her upcoming perfume with Coty. There shall be blood and semen. This is a far cry from her personally advertised taste in fragrance as the...

Guerlain are launching a special collector edition of their Homme Eau de Parfum Intense in collaboration with Italian design studio Pininfarina, which created the original flacon for Guerlain Homme launched in 2008. The Guerlain Homme Intense version followed in...

Since the premices of the Chanel collection Les Exclusifs, which was announced as early as 2006, this exclusive library of scents has set new standards of minimalist elegance in the domain of prestige-cum-niche fragrance world. As recently as fall...

  Back in 2006 in the early days of perfume blogging and the year the fragrance blogosphere took off, when I wrote the utopian post My National Parfum about the idea of a country which would use perfume to construct its...

 After a drop in fragrance sales over the past two years (except for celebrity fragrances, cf. NPD), it seems that figures are looking more optimistic as of December 2010, the month which traditionally makes or breaks annual sales. According to...

  Dior have unveiled the first images of the new Miss Dior Chérie campaign featuring actress Natalie Portman (see her also at the Dior boutique inauguration in NYC with John Galliano right after the jump.) It will be a way, as...

  Rather discreetly one must say, yet there it is, Chanel have launched a new flanker to the classic No. 19 created originally by perfumer Henri Robert in 1970-1971, a year before or so Gabrielle Chanel (1883-1971) chose to pass away....

 Niche perfumery aficionados can look forward to several 2011 releases which have already been pre-announced.Without revealing too much (read: authentic teaser alert), Les Parfums de Rosine are reminding their followers and rose lovers more generally that they will be celebrating...

 Renowned pastry chef, chocolate-maker and macaron specialist Pierre Hermé has launched a new quatuor of flavor creations for Christmas 2010 inspired by winter fruits, spices and flowers. They are called Envie, a combination of violet and blackcurrant berries, Pomme Verte...

New-York-City based Bond No. 9 have launched two limited-edition Chandelier editions for Xmas 2010. In a new twist on their already ostentatious Amphora fountains, in a novel take which even Donald Trump might think might be perfectly showcased by the...

  Lubin parfums, or "le parfumeur Lubin" as people would colloquially say in French in the 19th century have inaugurated a brick and mortar store in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, rue des Canettes, a street located bewteen St Sulpice and...